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Though Japan has been buying less from the world market over the past year, imports from the U.S. remain firm. And there is no evidence that Tokyo intends to unload goods on the American market as a way to offset slumping sales at home. The Big Three, for example, are relieved to see that Japanese automakers plan to raise prices on cars sold in the U.S. in order to boost profits...
...panderer, with Wall Street the prime beneficiary, and that Tsongas had belied his image as a "truth teller" by lying about the impact of Clinton's position on a middle-class tax cut. A Tsongas ad had implied that the reduction would worsen the deficit. Clinton's plan would offset the loss with a higher rate for affluent taxpayers...
...another. Then, when he needed them, they were there. Clinton's just come to town, and the organizations have a lot of local contests they consider more important than the presidency. They're ( for Clinton on paper, but the question is whether they'll work hard enough to offset a surge by someone else...
Demong said she would like to see the fund increased yearly to offset any rent increases...
...parading past, chaperoned by rhyming verse in English and French, the rah-rah doggerel gave the presentation promenade something of the air of a Miss Universe contest (finding rhymes for "Latvia" and "Cypriot" must surely qualify as an Olympic-style suicide mission). During the ensuing pageantry, classical romanticism was offset with futuristic whimsy. The air of playful modernity, dreamed up by Philippe Decoufle, a 30- year-old high school dropout who talks of getting ideas while asleep, conjured up a Mademoiselle France who was fresh, lighthearted and a little bit spacy...